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2018-03-01 Science & Technology
Secretive big-data startup Palantir is testing a controversial system in New Orleans that can predict the likelihood of someone committing a crime, report claims
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Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Clinton associates... just keep coming back and back
Posted by 3dc 2018-03-01 01:44||   2018-03-01 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Regarding the uptick of bee activity in on your farm. We have noticed periodic swarming near the small woods on the other side of your hay field. One corner of the woods has a number of old-growth hardwood containing knotty, rotting limb scars. Your dog will not go near the woods.

How are doing so far ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 03:08||   2018-03-01 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it the same Palantir we've heard so much about here?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-01 04:19||   2018-03-01 04:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes it is. It's the SW analytic tool our soldiers and Marines asked for repeatedly, but our DoD refused to purchase or integrate. The attached graphic might tell you why.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 06:34||   2018-03-01 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 attached graphic???
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-01 06:57||   2018-03-01 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 here is their corporate web site
Posted by 3dc 2018-03-01 07:02||   2018-03-01 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 I certainly hope Ann Coulter doesn't get her hands on a copy of that Palantir SW. Just think of the crazed racist theories should could propose.

The School-To-Mass-Murder Pipeline

[sarc off]
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 07:08||   2018-03-01 07:08|| Front Page Top

#8 I saw this movie.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-03-01 07:45||   2018-03-01 07:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Reads like a movie review for that old Tom Cruise movie, "Minority Report."

An action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054 where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-03-01 08:12||   2018-03-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Hunchlab in Chicago

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Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-01 09:00||   2018-03-01 09:00|| Front Page Top

#11 One of the technologies being used in the 7th District is HunchLab, a predictive policing program made by Philadelphia-based company Azavea. It combines crime data with factors including the location of local businesses, the weather.....

There it is again, the 'weather.'
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 09:24||   2018-03-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Is it being tested in New Orleans to reduce the number of false positives?
Posted by Raj 2018-03-01 10:01||   2018-03-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Sheriff Israel to the courtesy phone.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-01 10:07||   2018-03-01 10:07|| Front Page Top

#14 I suppose a urine test too unpleasant analyze for these people.
Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-03-01 11:36||   2018-03-01 11:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Why in the world is Palantir giving that dumbazz Carville a single dollar for advice?

Predictive analysis is a bunch of nonsense in policing...not a dang thing is actionable.

How about this? I predict that if New Orleans would get off their azz and arrest all the criminals with active arrest warrants running around in their community...than wasting time talking to Carville about something he knows absolutely nothing about...there would be a lot less crime in NO. I am 100% positive of my analysis.
Posted by Tennessee 2018-03-01 11:45||   2018-03-01 11:45|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm not sure what the headline is here. "Predictive policing" has been making advances for at least a decade and there are many companies and products vying for budget for predictive analytics. The inside Chicago story is they sent out multiple RFQ's to all the major vendors, and finally decided to "build it themselves" in house because...well you know its easier to just build a new Facebook than simply buy software as a service. Public servants are smarter than Silicon Valley geeks in most all matters.
Posted by Capsu78 2018-03-01 11:46||   2018-03-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Department of Pre-Crime
Posted by badanov 2018-03-01 12:07|| http://www.chriscovert.net  2018-03-01 12:07|| Front Page Top

#18 #15 - like many *ahem, FBI* they assumed The Beast would win
Posted by Frank G 2018-03-01 12:50||   2018-03-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#19 Maybe. But Peter Thiel - a Trump supporter - was one of Palantir's original founders and still IIUC is the largest shareholder, individually and via his investment fund.

More likely they are looking for a big city win and .... those cities tend to be dominated by Democrats.
Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-03-01 17:25||   2018-03-01 17:25|| Front Page Top

#20 This is an outfit to buy stock in. The government(s) will never stop writing checks for this stuff whether it works or not
Posted by Blossom Hupager6063 2018-03-01 22:27||   2018-03-01 22:27|| Front Page Top

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